Word: gaxton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leading lady is witty, torch-singing Ethel Merman, whose face is as plump as her voice is sharp. Anything Goes further boasts the services of debonair William Gaxton and wistful Victor Moore, respectively President Wintergreen and Vice President Throttlebottom of Of Thee I Sing. Funny as Victor Moore was as Throttlebottom, he is funnier still as "Moonface" Mooney, Public Enemy No. 13. Disguised as a parson, he is forced to flee the country on an ocean liner, soon attaches himself to Billy Crocker (Gaxton), a playboy following a long-lost sweetheart, and Reno Sweeney (Merman), an evangelist turned night club...
Meantime both the Varsity and West Point will work out at Soldiers Field today, and this evening the entire Crimson squad will go out to Sandy Burr Country Club to be entertained by William Gaxton and Victor Moore of "Of Thee I Sing" fame...
...William Gaxton, "President Wintergreen" of both the stage successes, however, declined when it was suggested to him that he might make a good President for the home of the Elis. "I'll leave all such jobs to Throttlebottom," said Mr. Gaxton. "However, if I were President, I think I could help them out in athletics. I would have the Yale faculty play the Harvard faculty--that would be a real game, and by the way Lois Moran might give them some inspiration, she did well by Harvard...
...have to disagree with the Vice President again," said Mr. Gaxton. "Why fuss about making Yale co-ed? I gathered from articles in the papers a couple of years ago that they were already headed that way. They've been doing all right so far. Let 'em alone and they'll be completely co-ed in no time. And you might suggest that they move their huddles out on the football field, that always helps...
...Such plays don't have much effect on the government," said Mr. Gaxton. "Both our plays have been produced at opportune times, so naturally they were successful. But they did not affect the administration in any way the administration that 'Of Thee I Sing' was satirizing was so used to ridicule that one play more or less didn't make much difference...